Josie Portillo - LA based illustrator
Josie Portillo is an illustrator originally from and living in Los Angeles. It is not permanently associated with any magazine, or a publishing house. Works on request. W 2009 r. graduated from Art Center …
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Theater in Slovakia
Theater in Slovakia
The earliest Slavic performances in today's Slovakia, related to religious rituals, supposedly took place during the times of the Great Moravian Reich, survived in folk traditions and infiltrated into Christian rituals. Their prevalence is evidenced by the fact, that the synod of Esztergom in XII …
Sculpture and painting in Slovakia
Sculpture and painting in Slovakia
The concept of "Slovak art” is not the same as the term "art in the area of today's Slovakia”, artistic activity flourished here long before the establishment of the Slovak state, and even before the Slavs came. National art began to emerge in parallel …
Oskar Kokoschka and others – Vienna – Belweder
Oskar Kokoschka and others – Vienna – Belweder
Works by Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) gathered in the permanent exhibition in the last two rooms come mainly from the first ten years of their stay in Vienna, creative and fertile years. After 1915 r. Kokoschka came back here enough …
Upper Silesia – folklore and folk art
FOLKLORE AND FOLK ART
Traditions of folk culture of the Upper Silesian village in its basic ethnographic groups of the Tamogórsko-Bytom region, Pszczyna-Rybnik, Raciborska, Cieszyn, Beskidzka, Opole was cultivated for generations, despite the growing in the nineteenth / twentieth century. the process of germanization of these lands. In many parts of the macroregion, they still remain …
Upper Silesia – Architecture and art
DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND ART
Upper Silesia inhabited in the past by the Proto-Slavic tribes of the Lusatian culture, and w VIII to IX w. by the Slavic tribes of Opole and Gołęszyce, having their settlements and strongholds along the upper section of the Odra River from Karinów to Opole, produced …
Sculpture in Austria
Sculpture in Austria
The sculpture has always reflected changes, which took place in architecture at the turn of the century. The famous altar of Nicholas of Verdun in Klosterneuburg Abbey in Lower Austria comes from the Romanesque period. There are also some beautiful Gothic altars in Austria, carved in …
A MINILEXICON OF ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE
A MINILEXICON OF ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE
But (should. „pan”) – superior, supervisor. Officer title in the Ottoman Empire, clerical and courtly, which both officers enjoyed, as well as governors, and even to the heads of the eunuchs and the court servants; after the proclamation of the republic, the title is purely honorific.
Now – …
Music in Turkey
Music
Turkey has a long musical tradition, and therefore many kinds of it – starting with military music, and ending with pop. Today, you can listen to a Janissary band at the Military Museum in Istanbul, whose music, won on timpani, she shut up …
Islam and art
Islam and art
Turkish culture and art are closely related to Islam, adopted by the Turkmen tribes from the beginning of the 10th century. It was then that they gradually began to arrive in Anatolia, trying to reach its western borders. Muslim doctrine pervaded all areas …